Category Archives: Animal Rights

What’s the difference between animal welfare and animal rights?

*If you have an extra 30 seconds, I’d love it if you could click on my pet health survey and answer three short, easy questions! This is something I’ve been thinking about: What’s the difference between animal welfare and animal … Continue reading

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Tomorrow is National Pit Bull Awareness Day!

Tomorrow is National Pit Bull Awareness Day. Wonderful events are happening across the country. I’m particularly excited for Indy Pit Crew’s Luv-a-Bully March. In honor of the day, I’m encouraging all bully lovers to donate their Facebook status to bully … Continue reading

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Blog the Change: MSN is BSL! #btc

About the time I was trying to decide what to write about for this month’s Blog the Change, I received an email from the fabulous Stephanie Feldstein from Change.org. Her local humane society, the Humane Society of Huron Valley, supports … Continue reading

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Lessons from the Campaign to End BSL

You want to hear something crazy? I am STILL getting postcards emailed to me! It’s one month past the deadline, and I’m still printing and going to the post office on a weekly basis! Plus, as a reminder, I’m still … Continue reading

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Guest Post: Dog Rescue Shelters Offer Hope but Often Euthanize Otherwise Loving Dogs

*Note: This is a guest post from Doug Pierce from Wet Nose Guide, a site geared toward NYC dog owners. They also maintain a comprehensive listing of NYC rescues and shelters! Dog rescue shelters invoke hope. Homeless animals, unwanted by … Continue reading

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#EndBSL postcard update

Well! I never would have guessed, but… I’m STILL receiving postcards! In the last two weeks, several dozen more have come in. So I’m still printing away! I have another run to the post office scheduled for Thursday to buy … Continue reading

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Adopt a less-adoptable pet week? Try, adopt a perfectly-adoptable pet week!

The BlogPaws challenge from this past conference was to blog about a less-adoptable pet this week. So what’s a less-adoptable pet? Dogs who struggle with getting adopted tend to be older dogs, dogs of a certain appearanceĀ  (black dogs and … Continue reading

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Your comments will help #endBSL!

We now have a way to send an additional 100 postcards to Denver! Emmett and Lucas are so lucky to have wonderful ladies who take them on a walk during the day when I’m working at a client site. Please … Continue reading

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Campaign to End BSL: Update!

Thank you, thank you, thank you, everyone! Thank you for sharing your stories and your pictures. Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedules to create postcards. Thank you for donating to help cover the costs of printing … Continue reading

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And away we go: Postcards to #endBSL!

I was going to post this yesterday, but here is a stack of 500 postcards, all ready to go! I started mailing them and am going to spread out all the other stacks throughout the week. Tomorrow is a huge … Continue reading

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